I agree. Seems like people always want to get paid as much as possible up-front. I haven't seen anything done around here that should be valued 100k/year. I'd like to see (as some claim to be developers in real life), the hourly wage they get for it, it would be fun !
In real life, you need to prove you're capable of doing said work and bear the responsibility before being paid accordingly, not the other way around.

People will say "but you just un-vote the proposal and funding stops", but that doesn't work like that (hence asking for a full year in advance). Same for witnesses, thinking DPoS is a true "real-time" democracy when most votes were casted a long time ago or during the recent crisis (and all votes obtained during this JS/Steem crisis must be named what they are really : votes for decentralization, not votes for particular witnesses, it would have been easy to remove them all while forking).

HPS is based on the same principle as is witness voting : on a flawed "DPoS" stake-based system.

1. If you want to be funded by the SPS, do the work, show the results of it, and then ask to be funded, not the other way around. Or at least have the decency to ask for 1-month funding at first, knowing the limits of the stake-voting system that is HPS.
2. The first effort must not be put in "continuous development" but in solving the multiple issues that exist since 4 years and that all people behind the fork (the consensus witnesses) have always been "good with" as it's profitable for them.
3. Let's rebuild trust. Consensus witnesses (that forked Hive) were working hand in hand with Steemit Inc. for years, botching every hard fork consistently, circle-jerking, operating bid-bots to milk the system until they decided bid-bots were bad. For now, it only seems that we are just being centralized not under one single entity, but under a group of people sharing common interests.

Remember that they were all talking about how our governance system was bad allowing one entity to take control. Justin stopped all SPS funding on the Steem blockchain, and now they want to get paid any other way.
The community forked and said that the first order of business must be to fix the DPoS governance problem. Let's fix that, instead of going milking-business as usual, just on another chain.